PDF OCR Alternatives

Apps similar to PDF OCR include Tesseract, which is free and open source. Other options are Adobe Acrobat DC, ABBYY FineReader PDF, GImageReader and CamScanner. You're spoiled for choice with Document Scanners like PDF OCR: we list more than 50 alternatives for Windows, the web, iPhone, Mac and Android.

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  1. Transym OCR (TOCR) is a leading provider of highly sophisticated, accurate and reliable optical character recognition software for developers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. ImageToText app allows you to extract editable ASCII text from images, and share the results by EMAIL or EVERNOTE.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
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  3. 48h sale! Just take a photo of a text with phone number, e-mail address or URL and immediately call, write e-mail or open URL in Safari. Or just scan and OCR any text.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
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  4. Text Detective finds and reads text in printed documents within seconds using your iPhone’s camera. The detected text can easily be read, edited, copied and pasted into documents, emails or other apps. It even stores all the scanned text in a history, which allows you to refer...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
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  5. Advanced OCR (optical character recognition) web application for creating editable and searchable electronic files from scanned paper documents and digital photographs.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  6. OCR Pro+ icon
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    A great way to scan documents and convert the information to text.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  7. Anyline icon
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    Anyline is a mobile text recognition SDK enabling developers to build text recognition apps without having any knowledge about OCR.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Xamarin Studio
    • Unity
    • Appcelerator Titanium
    • Apache Cordova
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  8. Extract PDF data to JSON format with our automated tool. No manual intervention is required.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  9. LensOCR icon
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    Extract easy and fast any text on your Mac's screen.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. Text UP icon
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    This mobile scanner can edit, send or store any text information from photography. You can just make a photo of the bill, instruction, check, buildings with signs, a page of a book or anything else, and use this text information as you like, right away or later.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
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  11. SearchOCR icon
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    Searching for a specific image in a folder of thousands can be a daunting task, and traditional search engines are often limited to searching only by filename. That's where SearchOCR comes in. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology allows our software to search for...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  12. AI-powered receipt scanning. 5 free scans, no signup required.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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